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Walter Abel
Known for: ActingWalter Abel (June 6, 1898 – March 26, 1987) was an American stage and film character actor. His eyes were brown and his (adult) height was five foot ten inches. Abel was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, the son of Christine (née Becker) and Richard Michael Abel. Abel graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts where he had studied in 1917 and joined a touring company. He made his Broadway debut in Forbidden in 1919. His many theatre credits include As You Like It, Desire Under the Elms, Mourning Becomes Electra, Merrily We Roll Along, and Trelawny of the 'Wells'. On the stage, he appeared in Channing Pollock's 1926 production of The Enemy together with Fay Bainter. Abel was married to concert harpist Marietta Bitter. He died of a myocardial infarction in Essex, Connecticut. Description above from the Wikipedia article Walter Abel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography 21
Hold Back the Dawn
as Inspector Hammock 
Mr. Skeffington
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as George Trellis 
Quick, Let's Get Married
as Thief 
Fury
as District Attorney 
The Indian Fighter
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as Captain Trask 
Night People
as Maj. R.A. Foster 
Dance, Girl, Dance
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as Judge 
Holiday Inn
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as Danny Reed 
So Proudly We Hail
as Chaplain 
Island in the Sky
as Col. Fuller 
Mirage
as Charles Stewart Calvin 
Night of the Dark Full Moon
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as Mayor Adams 
The Kid from Brooklyn
as Gabby Sloan 
Raintree County
as T.D. Shawnessy 
So This Is Love
as Col. James Moore 
That Lady in Ermine
as Major Horvath / Benvenuto 
Grace Quigley
as Homer Morrison 
The Human Duplicators
as Dr. Munson 
Twelve Angry Men
as Juror #4 
Michael Shayne: Private Detective
as Elliott Thomas 
Law of the Underworld
as Special Prosecutor Warren Rogers